Ventured into the land of the Wiki. Went into wiki farms and set up an account and then played around a little bit in the sandbox. The sandbox is for experimenting with various formats etc before getting down to the real Wiki. It was fascinating how information is asked for, gathered and presented to the readers. The form or the way the page looks can vary according to the person setting the page up.
I looked at 2 - the ALA 2006 New Orleans WIKI and Library 2.0 in 15 minutes a day. ALA's was developed as a guide for its conference calling on the knowledge and resources of its attendees or anyone. It had topics with some headings that needed input. One such topic was - New Orleans - then it had some heading for possible information such as "Resturants", "Hotels", "Books About New Orleans" and " Slang".
The Library 2.0 one was a different format with a Table of Content, description and references. It almost looked like a research paper.
I think this type of site could be workable when planning programs to get possible content, ideas or speaker suggestion from the customer, especially the teenagers or young adult segments of the library. Building possible movie or book title sites for where to find them or for who's willing to share them with other like minded people. The fact that anyone can add to the Wiki and give as much or as little appropiate information as they want makes it an ever changing entity.
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